The Surface shipped with a preview release of Microsoft Office. The full release was made available on the very day Surface sales began. The application is trivially updated to the release version.
The issue you point out in this video was addressed in the release version of Microsoft Office for this platform.
MS doesn't unload stinky piles of incomplete, alpha-qualty dog poop software upon their customers, like the embarrassment that is iOS maps, SIRI and for which numerous other examples are available in Apples ultra short, maximally customer milking software and hardware product cycles, which have accomplished remarkably little to advance the platform over, unbelievably, significantly longer periods. Compare this to the Windows 8/RT leap, which has been dramatic and truly generational.
There appears to be a rather desparate attempt to defame the Surface by some AAPL holders and Apple iPad cheerleaders with blogs. But the Surface easily surpasses the iPad with iOS in every aspect.
It amazes me that some claim third party bluetooth keyboards are in any way even a comparable option to an ultra-thin, ultra-light tactile, physical interface keyboard cover that is integrated in core aspects with the device and OS, includes a click touch-pad, and is a first-party device. This is a fantasy, an illusion and a delusion all at once. The type-cover is groundbreaking and an integrated and integral part of the full experience. The Surface is a complete productivity device, and easily a direct laptop and ultrabook replacement in what most use these devices for. It it also a direct replacement for the iPad, offering a larger screen and improved aspect ratio.
The iPad does not compare to the Surface, it is a vastly inferior device, from the ground up. The only things it has going for it are the advantages in the amount of available software, and the lack of an informed populace. The lack of support for standard ports is also a serious liabilty, cause for future (if not immediate) increased costs and source of planned and scheduled obsolescence.
The software and uninformed market are both situations that will quickly go away over the coming months. The WinRT runtime will come to par in terms of software; it will gain traction as a larger target audience than iOS, which only runs on ARM. The WinRT runtime is an upgrade available to almost all current Windows installations; all Windows 8 PCs will receive it; hundreds of millions are expected to go on line this year. Four million paid licenses were sold in the first four days of its general availability. And a vast $1.5B Microsoft ad budget backed by the ad budgets of dozens of OEMs can and will do wonders to inform.
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